Douglas M. Costle

Douglas Michael Costle (27 July 1939-13 January 2019) was Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 7 March 1977 to 20 January 1981, succeeding Russell E. Train and preceding Anne Gorsuch Buford.

Biography
Douglas Michael Costle was born in Long Beach, California in 1939, and he became a lawyer in Washington DC and California. He served in the US Army Reserve's military intelligence, and he worked with the Department of Justice and the FBI in Mississippi and working in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division. From 1977 to 1981, he served as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Jimmy Carter, and he served as dean of the Vermont Law School from 1987 to 1991. He ran in the Democratic primary for US Senator in 1994, but he lost the primary to Jan Backus. He died in 2019 at the age of 79.